Do I need to convert all my TW5's to version 5.1.13 ?

[JWHoneycutt]

Newly created TW5 files behave better than my old files (trying to run JSON to merge files).

I have several TW5 files started pre 5.1.13 - and they won't load, but a brand new one will (even in Dropbox and even with a password)

So - are my old TW5 files in need of refreshing into 5.1.13, or have I loaded some plugin that violates the JSON server loading thing (see my prior long post if interested)

And apologies - I have no idea what I' doing.

Any help is appreciated.

JWH

[Jed Carty]

It sounds like you may have a few things mixed up.

JSON is a way to represent data and is in no way specific to tiddlywiki. I believe that what you are referring to as JSON is the node version of tiddlywiki.

Are the pre-5.1.13 wiki single file html files? In what way will they not load? Would they load before?

I think that what you want to do is to split up all of your existing singe file tiddlywikis into .tid files and then share these files between separate wikis when running under nodejs, but that isn't very clear from what you are saying.

[JWHoneycutt]

Thank you Jed, 

It sounds like you may have a few things mixed up. Agreed, more than a few things.

JSON is a way to represent data and is in no way specific to tiddlywiki. I believe that what you are referring to as JSON is the node version of tiddlywiki.

Not sure... I wanted to merge several disparate TW5 files, thinking that I would have a lot of cleanup regarding tags, duplicate tiddler names, etc. I liked the description of Eric Shulman's TiddlyTools ImportTiddlersPlugin - but I can't figure out how to load any of his great sounding stuff (I just keep reloading the page that talks about the plugin) 

Then I started with another idea that starts by loading Node.js (which is distinct from TiddlyWiki5 and may or may not be JSON) - getting surprising results - because I can see my TW5 file in a loopback server at 127.0.0.1:8080 - and it creates a bunch of .TID files in a folder.

Are the pre-5.1.13 wiki single file html files? In what way will they not load? Would they load before?

So my TW5 files are HTML files. If I create a new TW5.HTML - it does the above, splitting up into .TID files and displaying in the loopback server (as long as Terminal is going, until I type Control-C in Terminal)

But this only works for new HTML files created under 5.1.13 - all my "regular TW5.HTML files are older, or "polluted" by plugins that I was experimenting with (I can't figure out which) - too many variables makes it hard for me to know why they aren't accepted. One thing I found is that the "--password <arg>" can't accept some special characters.

I think that what you want to do is to split up all of your existing singe file tiddlywikis into .tid files and then share these files between separate wikis when running under nodejs, but that isn't very clear from what you are saying.

I am showing my soft underbelly - I think what you are suggesting here sounds like it would be a good way to access information from numerous growing TW5 HTML files, and allow me to be able to work with them using my IPhone too. 

Do you think I am going in the right direction?  

[Birthe C]

You mention Eric Shulman's TiddlyTools ImportTiddlersPlugin. Problem being that it is for Tiddlywiki Classic, but you are having problem with TW5.